My eyes will pop out!!!!

Sebouh

Sebouh

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Can anyone explain to me how fast this computer is? I can t understand the unit (T).

"These capacities are underlined by impressive technical data: The supercomputer can achieve a peak performance of 2.3 Tflop/s and is being equipped with 1 TB RAM and 11 TB of storage. To illustrate the point for non-computer experts, this means that "ALBERT" is capable of performing 2,332,000,000,000 computing operations per second. To achieve the same computing performance, the entire population of the city of Zurich would have to multiply two eight-digit figures every four seconds for a whole year. The machine has over 1,085,440 megabytes of physical memory and over 10,880 gigabytes of hard drive storage."

This is the sauber's supercomputer for the windtunnel.
 
That computer is not that fast as it seems. The human brain is faster if the following calculation is correct:

Assumptions:
Ten percent (10%) of the brain's neurons fire at any given moment.
The brain has 10^11 neurons on the average.
There are 10^5 connections on the average (children range from 10^2 to 10^5, adults 10^3 to 10^6).
One bit is coded per neuron-connection.
The "cycle time" of thought initiations is 440 initiations/sec (maximum might be 1000) (220 FPS for thoughts / 0.5 ft maximum distance) (maximum might be 390 FPS)
Each initiation is the equivalent of one floating point operation (FLOP)
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Storage calculation:
The average human storage (long term) is estimated as:
10^11 neurons * 10^5 connections * 1 bit/connection = 10^16 bits
If we assume that short term storage (all forms) is 5% of the total, this gives:
Long term storage 1137 Tbytes
Short term storage 57 Tbytes
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Speed Calculation:
By standardizing on FLOPs, we calculate:
10^11 neurons * 10% usage * 440 initiations/sec = 4.4 TFLOPs
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But humans use that speed for achieving complex thoughts, not just stupid number-crunching as a computer does.
 
T = Tera...1 Terabyte(TB) of RAM, 11 Terabytes of Storage...1 Terabyte = 1024GB Approx. I could go into powers of 2 and stuff, but for a ballpark figure, 1 TB

Approx. 1000GB of RAM
11000GB of Hard drive
 
Lorand said:
That computer is not that fast as it seems. The human brain is faster if the following calculation is correct:

Assumptions:
Ten percent (10%) of the brain's neurons fire at any given moment.
The brain has 10^11 neurons on the average.
There are 10^5 connections on the average (children range from 10^2 to 10^5, adults 10^3 to 10^6).
One bit is coded per neuron-connection.
The "cycle time" of thought initiations is 440 initiations/sec (maximum might be 1000) (220 FPS for thoughts / 0.5 ft maximum distance) (maximum might be 390 FPS)
Each initiation is the equivalent of one floating point operation (FLOP)
​
Storage calculation:
The average human storage (long term) is estimated as:
10^11 neurons * 10^5 connections * 1 bit/connection = 10^16 bits
If we assume that short term storage (all forms) is 5% of the total, this gives:
Long term storage 1137 Tbytes
Short term storage 57 Tbytes
​
Speed Calculation:
By standardizing on FLOPs, we calculate:
10^11 neurons * 10% usage * 440 initiations/sec = 4.4 TFLOPs
​
But humans use that speed for achieving complex thoughts, not just stupid number-crunching as a computer does.
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Well can ur brain do this in 1 second......2345*4325...hehehe.
well ur brain cant sense hot and cold qiuckly cuase those nerve fibers do not have myelin on them.
 
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correction: 1 t = 10^12 (or 2^40 for powers of 2).
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ya ya I can't count :p

i could go into powers of 2 and stuff, but for a ballpark figure, 1 tb
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yes but the whole point was to define what tb was.

well can ur brain do this in 1 second. . 2345*4325. hehehe.
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yes. regardless, thats not one operation -- even for a computer when you zoom in far enough.
 
That's quite an impressive SMP config for AMD ... typically Intel is used when SMP scaling gets that big ... yay :)i
 
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